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Thursday, June 03, 2010

Which is why I competely support it. Come on grits and dippers you know you want to merge. Send all your fiscal conservatives, religious people and social conservatives to the Tories. You don't want those nasty people. Those people can't be part of your true leftists coalition. You know you do need the separatist socialists, the bloc. What a lovely party you would have

According to Liberal strategist Rob Silver, the same Angus Reid poll that has Layton becoming PM in an imaginary Liberal/NDP government (huh?), also found just 54% of Liberals support merging with the NDP. The New Democrats are even less enthusiastic at 40%.

This lukewarm support and the tight timeline to implement a merger before the next election, make the idea political suicide.

To understand why, read Jamey Heath’s book Dead Centre — Hope, Possibility and Unity for Canadian Progressives. Heath, former research and communications director for the NDP caucus, expressing a popular view within the party, not only doesn’t want to merge with the Liberals, he wants to kill them off and create a new “progressive” party to take on Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservatives.

This illustrates why you can’t just add existing Liberal and NDP support and automatically assume a merged party would defeat the Conservatives.

Not all NDP supporters, or Liberals, would vote for the merged party, just as not all Progressive Conservatives supported Harper after the Canadian Alliance merged with the PCs.

So far , Layton hasn't stolen any money from me . With the conservative government positioned over the center and spread out on both sides of the center a fair amount , Layton isn't that far away . But then theres Pat Martin . Anything putting him closer to being in government , or a party that includes him ,possibly in a government , sort of screws that whole scenario , as far as I'm concerned

it would be interesting to see what the Jews in the liberal party would do when they found themselves sitting beside Jew hating marxists like libby, I can't stand her, davies, the vampire of the downtown east side.